We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good. (Joan Wallach Scott)

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

Joan Wallach Scott

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